Tuesday 23rd April 2013  5:00 PM

Book Signing at ?Buy The Book? Tuesday, April 23, 2013 5:00-8:00 p.m. Buy The Book, West Bay Street (in the plaza opposite Saunders Beach)

Rosemary C. Hanna will be signing her recently published book, ?Pictorial History and Memories of Nassau?s Over-the-Hill,? at Buy The Book, West Bay Street (in the plaza opposite Saunders Beach), on Tuesday, 23rd April, 2013 from 5:00 ? 8:00 p.m.

The book paints a picture of what life was like in the Over-the-Hill area of Grant?s Town and surrounding areas on the Island of New Providence, The Bahamas, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century following Emancipation, when the area was settled by freed slaves. It includes a brief history of the settlement and development of the area and the role of the Church in that process.

It also contains over 300 colour and black and white pictures of churches, homes and families and introduces some of the people who lived Over-the-Hill. Much of the information contained in the book was obtained from family members and friends as well as through interviews with more than eighty present and former Over-the-Hill residents to whom the author is very grateful for their enthusiastic support. The foreword to the book was written by a self-described Grant?s Town Boy from Over-the-Hill, former Governor General, Sir Orville Turnquest.